February 24

Everyone	BIGGER mouths Eugenio falls, town freezes, Vincente is shot, town unfreezes I want layers on costumes – vests and or belts on men; scarves, big belts, on women Everyone needs to be more emotional Everyone needs to be bigger
Eugenio	After war – cross Downstage – You are tormented   Drink when no one on stage can see you. Candles Faster entrance about boils.  Did you say any lines that were cut in that scene? 2’step Faster cross with healted I am astonished  - happy Upstage arm to point to selfish man.
Moises	Don’t push table during Monica’s scenes. We need to see your face not your back when you pull table. Tell town which sargento does the town freeze
Tre	Arms out more
Town	See faces during hands on ears Don’t group up in church scene or any scene.
Clay	Softer guitar
Vincente cries	Belen reacts BIG.  React to each scream
Breck	Hit door when Luis does.
Luis	Head up When Monica says threw it away – anger builds to hitting the washer. Monster – palm out Dash heads on rock – palm out and look at that line Giving it toher - bigger
Lights	Monica’s second monologue
Belen	Pineapple in ghostly hand Move with electricity Why to the audience – a crying why – use taylor Everitt’s cry throat example
Don	On knees or standing at the end.

THIS MUST BUILD

MOISES	Your daughter is dying.  The moon orbits the earth.  The earth orbits the sun.  Your daughter is dying, and only I can heal her.
MOISES	Do you want your daughter to die?
LUIS	She’s not….
MOISE	Pues dimelo.
LUIS	I want you to help me.
MOISE	No… Need.   I said NEEEEED   Say it with me   NEEEEED
LUIS	But I
MOISE	Worthless little words
LUIS	Then why do you want them?
MOISE	I’m poor.  I don’t have the words you have.  I don’t get to say wife.  Or daughter.
LUIS	I need your help… I need your help.
MOISES	And I am a murderer.
LUIS	I am a…. I am a murder.
MOISES	Feel free to beg………..BEAT… whenever you are ready
LUIS	Please, Moises.  I beg you for forgiveness.  Beg you to heal my daughter.
.MOISES	That’s what I wanted to hear.  Don’t forget to take your daughter with you.
LUIS	But you didn’t do anything. You promised you would….
MOISES	I lied.  You are going to pick her up and I will never see you again.
MONICA	He… he…
LUIS	I can’t.  her head…. In my hands… will crumble and I can’t.
MOISES	Will someone take this child off my table?
EUGENIO	But….
MOISES	Now he speaks.  Go back to nursing your flask.
EUGENIO	You are a selfish man who can’t look up from his navel long enough to see how many people would kill for the gift you have. Kill to be able to reach out, touch something….someone…. and erase all the… the… the…
MOISE	Nothing you do will ever make up for how you failed us.
EUGENIO	What would Belen think of….
MOISE	Do you really think your little lips are worthy of uttering her name?
MONICA	What if… I promise to keep your wife’s memory alive?
MOISES	How?
MONICA	I could …… tell Ailen what my husband did.  Who he did it to.
LUIS	Monica……..
MOISES	You are lying.
MONICA	If that’s what it takes.  I’ll whisper in her ear every day.  Make sure she never forgets….
MOISES	She will blame you too. Barely stand the sight of you.
MONICA	But she will be alive.
MOISES	Bring her to me.
LUIS to MONICA	Pero que…. Que has hecho? =but, what have you done
MOISES to LUIZ	May she live a long life and never look at you without seeing the faces of your victims.
TOWN 8	When both their hands are on the child, someone shouts…